People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — IKE HILL. [ARTICLE]

IKE HILL.

Duties of the Uereeaat-at-Arms in th* House of Representatives. “The sergeant-at-arms will please see that order is restored;” or, “the sergeant-at-arms will see that the gentlemen t{ike their seats,” are familiar sentences to everyone who attends the sessions of the house of representatives, It. would take a man with gray hair to remember when a sergeant-at-arms has actually had to take a derelict concongressman by the coat collar and shove him down into his pivot chair or to slap his hand over his mouth to keep him from talking, yet from time immemorial that august official of the government has been called on almost daily to perform the act, especially when an exciting question is occupying the attention of the house. Now, Ike Hill, as an occupant of the chair of peacemaker of the house of representatives, makes a model officer. He is the best-natured man in the world and will go to the end of the earth to accommodate a friend. But. he can look alarmingly stern, as many members well know. When the speaker gives the signal for action, Ike gets up and fixes his eagle eye on the member violating rules. He advances with deliberate tread in the direction of the derelict. The sternness on his face increases as he sees no restoration of order. He gets nearer and nearer to the offender, who then takes his seat and looks like the bad boy of a school when trying to look innocent after getting caught in some mischief by his teacher. That’s the way it happens every time. In the interest of variety it is to be hoped that some day the member will refuse to “shut up,” and that Ike, in the loyal performance of his duties, will have to “put him up.”—Washington News.